People who've worked in the Programme Division department at UNICEF
Ezio "Gianni"
Murzi
06/01/1988
02/26/2006
Burkina Faso, Iraq, New York HQs, Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus, Belgium, Nigeria, Senegal, as Regional Director WCAR, India, after taking retirement. Before joining UNICEF, I had worked in Mozambique and then Tanzania for the Italian Govt.
Male
R.
Padmini
Lecturer in English, Madras University, India; Marketing Research - various positions, Hindustan Lever, India; Social Researcher, Poona University, India; Research Assistant, University of Illinois, USA; Sociologist, Council for Social Development/Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India;
Unicef staff member from 1974 to 1994. worked in New Delhi till 1981-planning officer; Addis Ababa 1981- 1986 - programme planning officer and then representative; New York - Chief, MENA section 1986-1990 and Chief, Urban and CEDC section 1990-1994.
Since retirement have moved back to Bangalore, India. Active in Child Rights, Urban Development and HIV/AIDS issues working with several NGOs.
Both son and daughter in the USA, and they/we visit often. One grand-daughter, now a delicious three year old.
08/20/1974
01/31/1994
Ph.D. in Sociology, M.A. in English Literature
Female
Difficult to choose but perhaps: During the 1983-86 famine emergency in Ethiopia, on a field visit to an area where we had supported local project through the Cash for Work scheme that JPG suggested, there was a huge slogan on the hill from which the gravity spring was flowing to the terraced fields of one peasant. It said that the revolution was the same year [1984]. when i exclaimed that he had the date wrong; it was a good ten years earlier, he replied ' Oh, that was not true freedom; this year when we could irrigate our fields we have true freedom - from want' . it was a sincere tribute to our support and I felt so uplifted.
